Character values and decomposition matrices of symmetric groups.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2007.11.017zbMATH Open1144.20006arXivmath/0610414OpenAlexW2057534729MaRDI QIDQ932870FDOQ932870

Authors: Mark Wildon 

Publication date: 11 July 2008

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By exploiting relationships between the values taken by ordinary characters of symmetric groups we prove two theorems in the modular representation theory of the symmetric group. 1. The decomposition matrices of symmetric groups in odd characteristic have distinct rows. In characteristic 2 the rows of a decomposition matrix labelled by the different partitions $lambda$ and $mu$ are equal if and only if $lambda$ and $mu$ are conjugate. An analogous result is proved for Hecke algebras. 2. A Specht module for the symmetric group $S_n$, defined over an algebraically closed field of odd characteristic, is decomposable on restriction to the alternating group $A_n$ if and only if it is simple, and the labelling partition is self-conjugate. This result is generalised to an arbitrary field of odd characteristic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610414

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zbMATH Keywords

alternating groupssymmetric groupsmodular representationsSpecht modulesdecomposition matricescentres of group algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of representation theory (05E10) Modular representations and characters (20C20) Hecke algebras and their representations (20C08) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30)

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